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The recent cyberattack that rendered more than 1,200 websites unreachable was a warning. Experts say a similar, or larger, attack could be launched tomorrow, and we’d be powerless to prevent it.

No one seems to know who was behind the attack, launched by a “botnet” of thousands of internet-connected devices. The Department of Homeland Security believes it wasn’t another nation.

I asked Jim Gillespie, whose firm Gray Matter Systems secures industrial-control systems, which part of America’s infrastructure he worries about most. “Personally I’m most worried about the water industry,” he said.